Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRYActually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.
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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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